Reference:A. Díaz, E. Galante, and M. E. Favila. 2010. The effect of the landscape matrix on the distribution of dung and carrion beetles in a fragmented tropical rain forest. Journal of Insect Science10(81):1-16 [ER 335]

Geography

Country: Mexico

State: Veracruz

Coordinate:18° 29' 4" N, 95° 13' 28" W

Basis of coordinate: stated in text

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Climate and habitat

Habitat: tropical/subtropical moist broadleaf forest

Altered habitat: fragment

Substrate: ground surface

MAT: 26.0

MAP: 4500.0

Habitat comments: "forest-pasture" edges near two forest fragments

Methods

Life forms: scarab beetles

Sites: 2

Site length: 280.000

Sampling methods: line transect, baited, pitfall traps

Sample size: 358

Years: 2001, 2002

Days: 84

Nets or traps: 16

Net or trap nights: 1344

Sampling comments: human dung and fish carrion "baited pitfall traps arranged along transects" set "monthly for six days and six nights... between July and September in 2001 and 2002" (i.e., over 84 days and nights); there were two transects each with eight traps separated by 20 m